1894 in Scotland

Events from the year 1894 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir George Trevelyan, Bt

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Asher; then Thomas Shaw

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

Events

 * 5 July – racing cutter Valkyrie II (1893) collides with Satanita on the Firth of Clyde and sinks, with one fatality.
 * 11 July – rebuilt St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, dedicated.
 * July – Marion Gilchrist becomes the first woman to graduate from the University of Glasgow and the first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university.
 * 7 August – the West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William.
 * 25 August – Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894 receives the Royal Assent. Parochial boards replaced by elected parish councils.
 * December – Longmorn distillery begins production.
 * Lady Victoria Colliery comes into production at Newtongrange, Midlothian.
 * McVitie's biscuit factory in Edinburgh is burned down but rebuilt.
 * Elsie Inglis sets up a medical practice in Edinburgh.
 * Craigholme School founded by Mrs Jessie Murdoch as Pollokshields Ladies' School.
 * Alyth golf course laid out by Old Tom Morris.
 * Marion Adams-Acton publishes Adventures of a perambulator: true details of a family history.

Births

 * 26 March – Alexander Thom, aerodynamicist and archaeoastronomer (died 1985)
 * 13 May – Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (died 1968)
 * 28 June – Allardyce Nicoll, literary scholar (died 1976 in England)
 * 29 June – David Steele, international footballer and manager (died 1964)
 * 14 October – Victoria Drummond, marine engineer (died 1978 in England)
 * Jimmy MacBeath, folk singer (died 1972)
 * R. M. Smyllie, journalist (died 1954 in Ireland)

Deaths

 * 3 September – John Veitch, poet, philosopher and historian (born 1829)
 * 3 December – Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (born 1850; dies on Samoa)

The arts

 * Ian Maclaren's stories Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush are published.
 * Robert Fuller Murray (born 1863 in the United States) dies; Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir is published posthumously edited by Andrew Lang.